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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:36 am
We'd all be there together Costa..I would be havin' my smokes, drinking beer and talking about a whole lot of subjects with Dick..I'd never be bored.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:36 am
Earth---Um, I would like to be able to speak up and say what's on my mind...and I like Dick. I'd hang with him. But then I have a tattoo and some piercings.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:38 am
The more the merrier...all women and Dick, what a cast!
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:38 am
And no, I do not believe that each time he calls a woman stupid or a bi*ch or sarcastically patronizies her that it is a calculated move in an overall well thought out game strategy. What, it's not just you who feels the way you do. Several posters in the Current Happenings thread who post overnight have made comments. They just aren't here right now. I think you are correct it's not a calculated move, because yesterday after he called out Kail again in front of the others, he looked @ the camera and said "I may have just screwed up, but...." I didn't get the rest. It's not respectful to call women the names he calls them. Even if people thought like him, they might have the control not to say it out loud.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:39 am
I don't have the live feeds so maybe I am reading him wrong through the board and the show, but, I think the best way to describe Dick is very politically INcorrect. We all have opinions that would annoy most of the world but most of us don't share them with anyone other than the friend in our head that gets us the most. I think Dick's friend in his head is a little tired of the rambling so he encourages him to share and share indeed he does. I can see he rubs people wrong, me, he probably wouldn't bug me. But, I also would be one of the girls in the house that would be embarrassed about how half my gender is acting. So I would secretly be ok that he was calling them out on it all. I do find it interesting that there is more debate about him calling girls B***ches (when many times they are being b***tchy) and not that Kail openly singled out a whole group of people as being wrong. What because she said it "sweetly" and "mom-like" it is ok?
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:41 am
I thought I would like Dick the best, but nope. Guys like him are usually either artsy, sensitive types or rock roadie/hangers on types who just want to be seen, and talk about who they know. Im afraid that in my eyes, Dick has turned out to be the later, and his name dropping Ricky Rackman right and left is a bit underwhelming. I mean, where has Ricky been the last 20 years?? sheesh!
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:41 am
well i guess no one here actually sat and listened to the exchange between Dick and Jen last night/this morning it was very interesting and insightful. And it wasn't hateful or insulting. Dick was trying to understand her. If you are going to reference Dicks myspace i believe you might want to read on and not stop at the one blog that he uses to vent.(after a break-up) Go on and read about his anniversary and how he feels on that day every year, how much he loved his ex-wife. How hurt he is This man who you claim hates women is very proud to admit he is happy he lost his virginity to some one he was deeply in love with. I have a friend who is so very much like Dick having known him and what he has gone through in his life maybe it gives me a better perspective to Dick than others see. Dick is loud, opinionated and confrontational I can understand how some women would be uncomfortable around it but it doesn't mean he hates women or that he is a bully. And dick would be the one i would hang with in the house as well. I don't like the word everyone is up in arms about but i also don't give the word any power. It isn't the word that is offensive it is it's use. describing a woman with this word is one thing directing that word to a particular woman in anger is where i have issue with it. And dick has used it as a colorful albeit crude adjective and nothing more.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:45 am
Sometimes the nicest guys in the world who are soft spoken and respectful in public are the ones who beat the shit out their women at home behind closed doors.
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:45 am
what does Dick even do now?/ for a living I mean?? Most of his stories are from 10 -15 years ago (his traveling stories mostly). I know he was Keith Richard's double, which Im sure was fun, but her himself said that gig was only 10 days...
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Caycaye
Member
09-14-2001
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:47 am
If you think Dick isn't a WOMAN-HATER...go to his MySpace page and read his blog about all things with "vaginas" are psychos, and that all of the vaginas he has been acquainted with, how "every VAGINA he has ever come in contact with EVENTUALLY turns into a psycho".... Lovely thoughts.....
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:51 am
Caycaye before passing judgment read on to his musings on growing older and his anniversary.
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Caycaye
Member
09-14-2001
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:54 am
The only judgement I am making on Dick right now, is that he has "issues" with women....he IS a classic "woman-hater".....that doesnlt mean I HATE the guy...there is a lot of good about EDick, and I still enjoy watching him... I just think it is a fact of his personality. He is very cynical about women. He has a LOT of good opinions that I agree with, but his outlook on womanhood is NOT one of them.
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Ladybug6377
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:55 am
I'm not sure he hates women, i'm not sure we know him well enough to assume that.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:56 am
He is a bartender..
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:57 am
Not continuing to read his my space page is not making a fair asessment. He is not a woman hater.
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Oddsygirl
Member
07-11-2006
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:59 am
I would hate for someone to pick through some of my rantings and decide that is how I feel all the time. People use blogs for many different things, some of them is to just blow off steam. Until you have walked in someone else's shoes, you should not judge them or decide what they meant when they said something. Just because someone has a problem with someone who is not like them does not mean they are anti - whatever. Having a problem with someone who is gay does not make them homophobic; it means that they have a problem with someone who just happens to be gay. IF a man has a problem with women, it means that he has a problem with someone who happens to be a woman. Everyone is different and not everyone is going to see eye to eye.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:07 pm
If someone had written something like Dick had written about women about gays or blacks, we'd certainly be calling that person prejudiced. I'm not sure why the fact that it's about women, makes it "venting" and okay. Healthy emotional perspective would mean that Dick could look at himself and see that he participates in these relationships, and is not just a victim of them. He could choose differently, rather than blaming. If he had a bad relationship, he could vent about that particular person, without casting aspersions on ALL women. That's where he goes too far, IMO. I think Dick's an interesting guy, and would find him fascinating to talk to. I sure as heck would never consider dating him. Again, IMO, he's a bad candidate for a relationship because he does have some unhealed issues.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:09 pm
THANK YOU, Karuuna. That's what I was trying to say but as usual you're more eloquent and concise than I am, lol.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:13 pm
Yes he definately has unhealed issues, but that does not mean he hates women. Dick has never said he hasn't made mistakes, as a matter of fact I think he is very hard on himself.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:17 pm
See in a blog I see making it general a way to "save face" maybe in the end. Perfect example, I am "aggravated" at my boyfriend today. I go to lunch with my good friend today she asks me how I am, and I say, well "Guys Suck" how are you? Of course I don't mean guys suck, of course I am angry at my guy but I don't want to personally or publically trash him, cause tomorrow I will love him again and I don't want to look stupid in front of her. I may vent about guy behavior in a blog but I am not going to publically trash someone specific. Maybe Dick has dated a bunch of psycho women, maybe Dick didn't say the name he was thinking cause it was the mother of his children or she had children of her own and he was thinking of them.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:20 pm
EM and Kearie... we'll have a party! I am starting to get offended at the names that Dick is being called. There is absolutely no real evidence that he is anything other than a man, stuck in a house. He's flawed, he admits it. There is no evidence that he doesn't like women (and I refuse to use the "h" word). I think, as EM said earlier, that respect is something that is earned. And I think Dick is someone who will speak his mind, and if he doesn't respect you, he will let you know. I'm curious... How many of you who say Dick dislikes women and has mommy issues also say that Kail is a homophobic, bible thumping, gay basher? How many of you call Amber a crackhead w**r*? I mean, really, what's the difference? How many of you would hold the same mirror up to yourselves? FWIW, a blog is just that... a place for someone to write things down. Sometimes blogs are full of sensitive and insightful information. Sometimes they are ramblings. And sometimes they are venomous. Those of you who have decided Dick is a woman "h-er"... are you going to tell me that you never have a bad day? Never go off on someone? Ever? If so, then maybe a future in sainthood is for you. (Not that there's anything wrong with that! <grin>)
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:22 pm
Amen Costa The Kail thing is the one that throws me the most. I am shocked that is not a bigger deal to the public
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:23 pm
BYOB Costa..Oh and by the way that would be "crankhead ho".. I don't want you to be accused of not knowing your drug venacular.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 12:24 pm
I have to admit, I am a Navy Vet who knows how to use colorful language lol. I try to not use them, but when I am mad, I have no problem letting the old sailor in me fly. As I said in another thread, if Jen came up to me and told me how to play the POV game. I would have flipped out on her, and I would of told her to F off and mind her own business, that she worry about her own game and not worry about mine and NOT tell me how to play. Kail had brought up a few times, that she doesn't want the house guests to know her and her husband own most of their small town. It is like secretly flashing her money and self-importance, also add her intolerance to gays or who ever. I would also like to add that Kail has not made it easy for anyone to get close to her. She has a huge brick wall up, not letting anyone near, not even in her own alliance. She sets herself apart from everyone else in the house. I would take that as if she would feel she was better then me if I was there too. I call the ugly C word, C-mode and I have met a few women in my life where even that discusting word/mode has fit them. And I am guilty of slamming someone who was way deserving of it. I like Dick. He might be insecure, but he is more real. If I was in the house, I would be like Lexie and Costacat too, I would be hanging with him more myself. I wouldn't date him, but I could be friends with him. Whether the problem with Danielle or Dick is real or not, if my kid quit talking to me and I couldn't get them to sit with me long enough or be in a place with me long enough, I might resort to the BB adventure as a last resort. She could only avoid me long enough and any chance to reconcile in any small way would be to my benifit by both of us being in this house.
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